Hi group,

I would like to mount a (permanently) attached external USB drive so that it is writable by multiple userids. Currently HAL is mounting the drive as writable to my owner user and readable for group and others. My m/c also runs as an FTP server and i would like said FTP server to be able to write files to the external drive. Just being able to specify a gid would probably do the job for me.

I have googled HAL and UDEV and also attempted to configure usbmount to do this, all to no avail.

i am not even sure if it is possible, so if someone could put me on the right track with this i would be very gratefull.

I am running SLES 10.3

SO in summary, can i & how do i either make HAL mount the drive with gid=nnn, or should i not use HAL and simply make an entry in /etc/fstab and make sure a i get the same device address for this USB drive each time i boot?

Andy

what did you do with udev?

or write a new script for using mount

mount --make-shared mountpoint

Hi Amani,

I havn't done anything with UDEV yet, i am still trying to figure out if i should try to do this via HAL and it's horrible XML config, UDEV, or if i could make my life a little easier by using a FSTAB entry. I was concerned that perhaps this should not be done with a USB drive (2 users trying to change same data), or that i could not be sure that the usb drive would be assigned to sdb1 each time the system was restarted when a pen drive was plugged in.

Andy

one way is to use labels or uuid with fstab entry

see
man tune2fs

Thanks Amani, i have used a FSTAB entry and all is Ok. I am a little concerned the device address may change, i'll just have to be carefull what i have plugged in when ever i reboot